Desert Wildflowers Crossword Puzzle

About the Desert Wildflowers Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle features flowering plants found in deserts and other dry landscapes, especially in the American Southwest. Look for familiar names such as brittlebush, desert lupine, ocotillo, and sand verbena, along with blooms that appear after seasonal rains. It suits gardeners, nature lovers, and students learning about desert habitats and native plants.

This crossword draws on 39 clues about Desert Wildflowers. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Spiky succulent used to make tequila and sisal (5 letters)
• •Shrub with yellow blooms and inflated seed cases (10 letters)
• •Succulent adapted to store water in fleshy stems (6 letters)
• •Yellow daisy-like bloom often called tickseed (9 letters)
• •Frond-bearing plant that reproduces by spores (4 letters)
• •Mallow relative with orange, cup-shaped blooms (11 letters)
• •Purple-petaled, daisy-like bloom of the Southwest (11 letters)
• •Flat-padded succulent bearing edible fruit (11 letters)

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